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Andrew Yang launches Universal Basic Income trial run in South Carolina
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang gained a ton of support during his run for the presidency on his platform for an universal basic income (UBI). In it, he proposed that every American adult over the age of 18 would receive $1,000 a month with no strings attached and no questions asked, which he called the Freedom Dividend.
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Winner of $1.5 Billion Lottery Comes Forward (Well, Their Lawyer, Anyway)
An anonymous person in South Carolina finally claimed the record-setting prize from October’s $1.54 billion Mega Millions jackpot, opting to collect a one-time lump sum of $877,784,124. The state’s lottery commission announced on Monday that the person had stepped forward, ending questions about why, five months after the winning numbers were announced, no one had claimed the money. It was the largest payout to a single lottery winner in United States history.
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South Carolina Spent $9 Billion to Dig a Hole in the Ground and Then Fill it Back in
THE OBJECTION RAISED most frequently when it comes to a Green New Deal is its cost. It’s preposterous; it’s too expensive; we just can’t afford it. But before scoffing at the prospect of the wealthiest nation in the history of the world funding such a project, it’s worth taking a look at what one of the country’s poorest states was recently able to spend. South Carolina, in a bid to expand its generation of nuclear power in recent years, dropped $9 billion on a single project — and has nothing to show for it.
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Giant deep sea coral reef discovered off South Carolina coast
It stretches for at least 85 miles and is likely the keystone source of the region's fisheries.
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Charleston, South Carolina, Formally Apologizes for Its Role in the Slave Trade
Some 40 percent of enslaved Africans entered the country through Charleston
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Woman Apparently Tore Out Her Own Eyeballs and Was Found Holding Them in Her Hands Near South Carolina Church
A South Carolina woman apparently tore out her own eyes and was found holding them in her hands near a church this week, according to local reports. Horrified churchgoers called 911 Tuesday after the grisly discovery, according to WYFF. "It was across the street, and I could see blood, and could hear screaming and I realized something was wrong," Elizabeth Hiott, who had been working at the South Main Chapel and Mercy Center in Anderson South Carolina, told the TV station.
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Upstate lawmaker to reintroduce bill to allow firing squad executions in SC
South Carolina Rep. Josh Putnam (R, Piedmont) said he plans to reintroduce a bill to add firing squads to the execution methods in South Carolina. Putnam first introduced the bill in 2015 but the legislation didn’t pass. He said the new bill would be almost identical to the prior one but he feels it’s important for creating dialogue about death penalty options in the state since lethal injections cannot be carried out at this time, due to the unavailability of the drugs needed for the lethal injections.
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A gunman has opened fire near the University of South Carolina
There is said to be an active shooter situation near the University of South Carolina, with one person believed to have been shot. The University of South Carolina Upstate in Spatanburg issued a Twitter alert warning of shots being fired, with four buildings on campus placed on lockdown. That lockdown was later lifted. Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Bobo told the Associated Press that the shooting occurred at an apartment complex next to the school’s campus and one person suffered a gunshot wound to the arm.
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A Most American Terrorist: The Making Of Dylann Roof
In June 2015, he shot and murdered nine black church-goers in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to ignite a race war. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah spoke with Roof's family, friends, and the victims' families to unlock what created one of the coldest killers of our time.
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Congress Quietly Passed A Bill Allowing Warrantless Searches of Homes - Only 1% Opposed It
One of the most important things to remember about this legislation is that it was ignored by the media, and while it may only affect the Washington D.C. metro area now, it could be laying the blueprint for future legislation across the country.
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Disunion: When Old Glory Returned to Fort Sumter
On the evening of April 13, 1865, the steamship Oceanus arrived in Charleston, S.C., after a three-day trip from New York City.
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Disunion: Surrender
Only Capt. Abner Doubleday seemed irked that the battle was over.
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Disunion: The Fall of Satan’s Kingdom
Since the first shells burst over Ft. Sumter in the early morning of April 12, 1861, irrevocably igniting the Civil War, the Lincoln administration longed for an opportunity to retake Charleston.
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Disunion: Abner Doubleday Finds a Potato
On the last day of peace, Capt. Abner Doubleday found a potato. It had been kicked into a corner and stepped on, but was not too badly squashed, so he dusted it off as best he could and stowed it away for safekeeping.
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Disunion: ‘Upon the Points of Our Swords’
For months, a single question had preoccupied the men of Fort Sumter’s beleaguered Union garrison, from their commander down to the lowliest private: what would the Lincoln administration do?
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This teacher raised enough money to buy new bikes for each student in her school
Students jumped with joy, hugged one another and squealed with delight as teachers at their South Carolina elementary school revealed hundreds of custom-made bicycles beneath parachutes normally used for P.E. class. The new set of wheels Thursday came courtesy of first-grade teacher Katie Blomquist. "I made a really conscious effort to watch their faces and let it soak in and imprint in my brain when those tarps went up," she told TODAY. "It was that moment I've been waiting for seven months."
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In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past
The compulsion to engage the Charleston area’s complex history as a slave-trading center was, for the writer, a visceral thing, akin to the urge to revisit a crime scene.
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Man confesses to killing at least seven after woman found chained in container
A South Carolina man killed at least seven people in a hidden crime spree that lasted more than a decade and only was uncovered when police rescued a woman chained at the neck in a storage container, authorities said Saturday. Todd Kohlhepp accepted responsibility for an unsolved 13-year-old massacre one day before the 13th anniversary of the deaths that stumped authorities, said Sheriff Chuck Wright, first elected a year after the murders.
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Hurricane Matthew Unearths Civil War Cannonballs on US Beach
A bomb squad is called to a beach in South Carolina after civil war cannonballs appear in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials say.
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Hurricane Matthew Hits the Carolinas in Pictures
A Charleston resident kayaks down a flooded Rutledge Avenue after Hurricane Matthew hit Charleston, South Carolina.
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